The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-14
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr. WHITTIER will be eighty on the 18th of
December.
COLONEL INeERLoLL receives his friends on
Sunday evenings, never turning even strangers
from his door
LOWELL Courier: The brain of an elephant is
somewhat larger than that of man. but the
trunk of an elephant is considerably smaller than
that of a woman.
Two days before his death, last week, j. Au-
brey Jones, of Philadelphia. remarked to a
friend Wouldn't it be strange if I should die
this month! All our family die in December"
He was in his usual health at the time.
Miss SKERRETT, who used to be Queen Vic
toria's private secretary. lately died at the age
of ninety-fve years. She was an accomplished
linguist and a student so indefatigable that at
the time of her death she was studying Ice
landlc to be better able to understand the Sagas
A PEEKsKILL gentleman owns the mahogany
reading desk and pulpit chair which Henry
Ward Beecher used for eighteen years in Ply
mouth Church The upholstery of the chair is
soiled where the famous preachers head rubbed
against it and frightened up his wealth of ideas.
A coLoRED preacher in Philadelphia is one
hundred and seventeen years old and in excel
lent health. Earnest efforts will be made to
keep him alive eighty-three years longer for the
purpose of holding another centennial celebra-
ton in that city.
". B. RICHMOND, the English artist who is
now in Berlin painting portrait of Prince Bis
marck, describes the Iron Chancellor of
the best sitters in the world. Men and nations
who have been sat upon by Bismarck will coin
eide with this opinion.
MANY of the editorials in Texas papers may be
described as nocturnes in black and white. Here
is one from the Texarkana Independents ''Wom-
an is just too awfully lovely in newly Numbered
Wamsutta and lawn when fresh from close COM
munion with toilet soap and crystal watery
bath. She has the ripe peach fragrance of para
disc and the breath of the cape jasmine OF the
tropical empyrean."
Pope LEO XIII has strong agricultural tastes
and planted the Vatican gardens with fruit trees
and vines as as he assumed the Papa1 tiara.
He takes especial interest in vitculture, but for
some reason or other the vines would not yield
until this year. when, for the first time, four
casks of wine have been made from the Vatican
crop. Every day during the vintage his Holiness
came down into the garden and watched the
process, showing by his sensible orders that he
understood the system thoroughly.
THE late George A. Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn.,,
president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
was left fatherless when he was thirteen years
of age. He gave his share of his fathers prop
erty to his brothers and sisters, and at eighteen
became porter and errand boy in a clothing
store IN Boston at a salary of $50 year. He
boarded with his employer and slept at the store.
During the first year he spent but SO cents out
of his salary. He never in his life smoked
cigar drank drop of wine liquor. He
died the richest man in Stamford.
LET English actors take away
From what cash they CAM
Twill all come back some future day
With John l.. Sullivan.
Boston Courier.